While America’s “Space Programme” is in transient stage and Russia’s space technology outdated, using 1950s rocket technology, Space race is now between super rich China and technically advanced India with home grown, far superior technology costing fraction of what it would cost in the West to put a satellite in orbit. India’s recent launch of multi-purpose satellite weighing 2230 kg, orbiting earth at the height of 36000km with life-span of 12 years is a gift to her six neighbours, namely Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Maldives, Nepal, Bhutan and Sri Lanka who until now depended upon China and Russia for weather forecast and other such information transmitted from Space. India should add other friendly countries like Myanmar (Burma) Thailand and especially Vietnam with whom India has close military ties, trains her army and sells arms, especially missiles.
India’s Space Agency ISRO (Indian Space Research Organization) has gained world-wide reputation as one of the most advanced and cost effective home grown space industry in the world, capable of putting up to 45 satellites in space with one launch, having landed rockets on Moon and Mars at first attempt, Mars being the only planet in our solar system with the possibility of having very primitive micro life. China is hell-bent on economically colonizing and militarily subjugating the world with passive, submissive cooperation from fiduciary, sleep-walking West, with enlightened India the only nation who could thwart China’s evil intention; hence India is China’s enemy number one.
Bhupendra M. Gandhi
By email
